"First Al Gore, then John Kerry were painted as out-of-touch elitists, mandarins and eggheads. "
No, they are out-of-touch eggheads.
Posted on 09/15/2008 9:54:33 AM PDT by goldstategop
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
A 52-week high of $2.00 a share... BAHAHAHAAAHAAHAAAAAAA!!!!
Did you ever stop to think that maybe we bring up the culture war because we’re conservative?
Not that I think mores are the concern of politicians, but since they won’t talk about balancing the budget or the fallacy of man-made global warming, they might as well talk about cultural decay.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
“You vote for Palin the same way you vote for a designer on ‘Project Runway.’ As Katharine Mieszkowski reported for Salon, Palin’s rapturous supporters embrace her because ‘she represents me.’ It’s the politics of sheer narcissism.”
What an odd choice of words “represents” is. Taken literally, I cannot think of anything wrong with voting for someone who represents you. After all, we live in a representative democracy.
Do they have editors over at Salon?
Gotta love lib’s arrogance. We’re stupid bumpkins because we love Palin and not those who are more intelligent than us. LMAO.
Let me see: the Republican Party is the party of “emotional identification, narcissism, and resentment”? What has Obama’s campaign been if not those exact things? Kamiya is a typical example of leftist scribblers who accuse Republicans of lying without giving a concrete example. Palin ditched the “bridge to nohwere” when it became unpopular? Where does he show this proof along with the other things he accuse Palin (and Bush) of lying about?
Currently at $1.10 with no volume. This from a high of almomst $12 in 2005 and a spike of $10 in 2006.
Bet they just don’t understand why, either. Or they JBB (Just Blame Bush). ROTFLMAO!
It is funny that they keep spouting that she lied. Show me one lie she has told... But in the article full of BDS it is amazing that this BEOTCH doesn’t mention that President Bush was a Uniter after 9/11 and the Dems didn’t even let the dust settle on the WTC before they attacked Bush.. As being a scared little boy in the face of the attacks..It was not Bush that divided it was the Democrat Party that has divided and Demonized My President... We are winning in Iraq, and when Palin said they will be fighting the people that attacked us, she was speaking of Al-queda. Not the Iraqi people... This so called Journalist I say that with reservation is so beyond help I dont think Sigmund Frued could help her... Its time these libtard journos get the picture keep up the good work and help sweep the next president into office. JOHN S MCCAIN!
“Bush. After all, his presidency has been a historic disaster, and the American people know it. But Bush was successful at one thing: winning elections. With its policies and ideology in ruins, Bush’s political game plan is all that the GOP has left. And so McCain, who sold his soul to win, is following Bush’s script — with Sarah Palin playing the leading role once played by Bush”
‘historic disaster’ ? WRONG
‘the American people know it’ you need a larger circle of real friends
‘in ruins’ ? Wrong what would be the indicators of said ‘ruins’
‘sols his soul to win’ ? not observably
These folks have to create their own reality in order to feel good. Isn’t there a pathology there?
[”It’s terrifying that so many Americans are so driven by resentment that they will vote against more qualified candidates simply because they seem “different” from them.”]
Implication: People who intend to vote against Obama are racists.
[”For what this means is that anyone with expertise, unusual intelligence, mastery, special knowledge, is likely to be rejected by voters who are resentful of “elites.””]
Implication: People who are blind to the “fact” that Obama has expertise and unusual intelligence are this way because they “envy excellence” . They are the same people who denied Al Gore his shot at “greatness” because they didn’t believe that he invented the internet.These Gore and Obama haters are the same ignorant mob who think that the Apollo astronauts really landed on the moon, or that Al Qaeda brought down the Twin Towers.
[”The culture war is driven by resentment, on the one hand, and crude identification, on the other.” ]
Implication: It was the conservatives who started the culture wars because they oppose the left’s attempts to tear down the American institutions of education, marriage, and freedom. Press the Democrats on this and they’ll have to admit that they think the U.S. started World War II because we reacted “violently” to the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
She is not a go along to get along Bush retread. If she were I would be all over her too. She is imbued with the spirit of Regan, facing a few key issues squarely, heading into the storm with a firm hand on the rudder, which is what we very much need right now.
“Resentment of “elites,” “Washington insiders” and overeducated coastal snobs “
I would call them overindoctrinated Marxists who seem to have missed history class the day they taught how Marxism failed every time it has been tried.
AIs it inbreading or drugs that enables this Orwellian use of language that it is narcissism when a democratically elected representative is expected to represent the people that s/he represents. Your brain cells have to live simultaneously in multiple parallel universes to keep up this kind of schizophrenia. It is an if a then not a logical fallacy, the kind of genetic coding error that is eliminated by natural selection because you cannot survive - don't run because what looks like a lion and roars like a lion is really a lawsuit bearing John Edwards in sheep's clothing kind of argument.
Narcism is men wearing thousands of dollars of gear before working up a sweat on a bike. In fact real narcisists don't work up a sweat. Or tying up air traffic in SOCAL while you get an expensive haircut... or, or, or..
"First Al Gore, then John Kerry were painted as out-of-touch elitists, mandarins and eggheads. "
No, they are out-of-touch eggheads.
One parallel I see from the left...
They claim that THEY aren’t fighting any “culture war”, and don’t know what we’re fighting one for either.
The greatest lie ever told, by the Father of Lies - “I don’t exist”.
So... if I don’t want to see the Constitution replaced by other, more “progressive” ideas, and if I want limited government reflecting the attitudes and values of the people of the country... I’m “resentful.” What marvelous psychobabble. I apparently don’t know what’s good for me, so I’m like my 2-year-old who turns his head aside when being served brocolli. Since I have a developed sense of right and wrong, I’m “rigid.” When I correctly point out academics and the media appear to have values and attitudes which are not reflected by the people as a whole, I’m wrong to consider them “elites.”
And these guys wonder why they’re the objects of scorn.
Yeah, “How dare Quayle talk about single mothers in the media when there’re zealous teachers trying to erase Darwin from students’ brains?”
You think Al Gore was smart because you agreed with him. You think John Kerry was smart because you agreed with him. You think Obama is a genius because you agree with him (although it’s not hard to agree with the word “change”).
We think all of the above, be they as intelligent as the next Senator, were wrong. othing else mattered.
othing else mattered = Nothing else mattered
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